Brother Zhu Youxiao

Chapter 283 The Dying Wild Boar in Xingjing City
"The Ming army went out of the fortress, and all the ministries sent out men. Tomorrow we will go to the south to fight the grass valley! All the troops will follow Bo Yunxie Taishi Beimu."

At dusk, with Lingqi's continuous running and ordering, soon all the ministries in Chahar knew that Lin Danhan was going to organize an army to go south to fight Caogu.

"Beimu Beimu, how can there be so many things if you don't fight!"

"The Ming army has not been out of Beisai for many years, and I don't know how many people have come."

After Ling Qi left, some members of the Chahar Tribe began to curse, but the curses were the same, and everyone started to pack up their things and prepare to flee north, although this so-called north escape was called "Northern Shepherd".

It's just that compared to the scolding of the Chahar tribe, many lords of Karaqin returned to their big tents, found the Jinyiwei hidden in the tribe, and told them about Lin Danhan's actions.

After hearing the news, the Jinyi Guards pretended to be Karaqin sentry cavalry and went south. On the third day, they told Zhu Youjian who had just led the troops out of the Yanshan Mountains that Lin Danhan was going south, and Bo Yunzai was going north.

"He's pretty brave..."

On the vast Duolun Grassland, more than [-] vanguard and straight horse infantry have already marched northward under the leadership of Cao Meng and Saihan. After hearing the news from Jin Yiwei, Zhu Youjian turned to look at Sun Shoufa and laughed outright. .

He really thinks that Lin Danhan is very brave. He has caught all the three major beiletaiji in Hetao and danced in the capital. This Lin Danhan also thinks that he can go south to try the blade of the Ming army.

"Your Highness, why don't you just ask me to take Longxiangwei and go directly to the main force of Hutudun for a decisive battle."

Sun Shoufa was riding on horseback, looking eager to try, it seems that he didn't pay attention to Lin Danhan's [-] cavalrymen.

In this regard, Zhu Youjian smiled and said nothing, then unfolded the map, glanced at the map, and then glanced at the terrain of Duolun Grassland in front of him.

The Duolun Grassland is located on the southeastern edge of the Mongolian Plateau, stuck between the Yanshan Mountains and the Harawin Mountains. Generally speaking, its terrain is high on all sides and low in the middle.

Among them, the south is slightly higher, the north is slightly lower, and the plateau gradually lowers from southwest to northeast, forming a wide and gentle semi-circular basin.

In other words, the Ming army is now slowly going downhill, while Lin Danhan's cavalry is slowly going uphill.

In this case, it seems that sending cavalry is enough to defeat Lin Danhan.

But defeating Lin Danhan is of no benefit to Zhu Youjian for the time being.

Lin Danhan is still alive, so he can at least nominally unite with Mobei Khalkha and Monanbo.

If he dies, it is not certain that Bo Yungang of Khalkha in Mobei and Monan will go to the doctor in a hurry, and take the initiative to seek refuge with Huang Taiji just like Lin Danhan moved westward in history.

There are nearly [-] people in the Karaqin and Waikalka tribes, including [-] to [-] males.

If such a force became Huang Taiji's retinue or ally, it would obviously be detrimental to the Ming army's subsequent war of sweeping captives.

Moreover, after defeating Lin Dan Khan, all the occupied areas were grasslands with less than [-] milliliters of precipitation. Why did Zhu Youjian want it?

grazing?After two years of release, the Little Glacier experienced severe drought. At that time, many tribes in Monan would either migrate to Hetao or the Horqin Grassland in the eastern part of Harawen Mountain. In history, even Lin Dan Khan migrated to Qinghai due to various weather and political reasons. It is possible to build a city here.

Because, combined with everything, what Zhu Youjian needs is to repel Lin Danhan, then take down the Duolun Grassland, and then include all the places west of Harawen Mountain into the territory of Ming Dynasty, which is enough.

As long as these things are done, Da Ming can gather all his strength to fight against the Little Ice River disaster with peace of mind.

Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian said to Sun Shoufa next to him:
"Send someone to tell Cao Meng and Saihan that if they encounter any sentry cavalry from Hutudun, they will kill them all."

"If Tiger Rabbit Dun personally leads the cavalry, tell them not to worry, and use artillery and rifles to fight the enemy."

"When the casualties arrive, he will withdraw by himself. There is no need for us to waste our energy on dealing with him."

"Yes!" Sun Shoufa responded, and then sent a hundred households to lead a hundred cavalry to pass the news to the vanguard.

Similarly, after arranging the vanguard, Zhu Youjian said:
"This Duolun grassland is easy to be attacked. The four cavalry guards cannot move for the time being. Let Man Gui guard the supply line. If the follow-up troops are insufficient, then send Ying Yangwei, Shenwuwei, and Lu Longwei to pick them up."

"The last general takes orders!" Sun Shoufa heard the words and arranged for another person to pass the news back to the rear army.

After doing all this, Zhu Youjian turned his head to look at the Chinese army.

In the current Chinese army, there are basically only more than [-] people from Long Xiangwei marching.

They have five horses per person, one rough horse and four war horses.

On the back of the nanny horse was a cloth mask and ten days' worth of rations and horse supplies.

The relatively light things such as bullets, gunpowder and weapons and firecrackers are hung on the backs of the four army horses.

The soldiers of Long Xiangwei were wearing mandarin duck battle jackets and cotton armors, and their half armors walked on the grass. The armor weighed [-] catties, which was not very heavy.

Their marching speed must be faster than the horse and infantry of the vanguard army. After all, even tired people can share their things with the horses, and then ride the poor horses for more than ten miles.

In this way, the physical strength of the war horses and nanny horses will not be consumed too much, and the marching speed of eighty miles a day can be achieved.

After all, this battle is not a rush battle, there is no need to wear armor all the way, it is a waste of energy.

Not only them, but even the rear army and vanguard army marched in this way, the difference is the strength of each army's release of Tangqi.

Generally speaking, the range of [-] miles is a relatively safe time. Even if the enemy is found and then notified to the headquarters, the headquarters still has two to three quarters of an hour to wear armor.

Of course, the standard for going up straight is fifty miles, which is different from other outer guard camps.

Looking away, Zhu Youjian calculated the time.

In three days, they walked nearly [-] miles, and Lin Danhan's side was full of Qingqi, probably running about [-] to [-] miles.

That is to say, counting the distance between the outgoing Tang cavalry and the sentry cavalry, the distance between the Tang cavalry of the Ming army and the sentry cavalry of the Beilu should be less than three hundred miles.

According to this posture, the two sides will be able to fight at most the day after tomorrow, and the vanguard will be able to meet the main force in two days...

"There is still plenty of time. It is still the third day of March. Sun Yingyuan should be in Liaodong."

Thinking of this, Zhu Youjian looked towards the sky, his gaze seemed to span more than a thousand miles, and he saw Xiong Tingbi who was mobilizing troops and coordinating civilian husbands...

"Sieve the military rations carefully for me, don't mix them with any silt, if you are caught by the old man, you should pay more attention in the next life!"

"Yes--"

While Zhu Youjian was watching, the actions of Xiong Tingbi and Sun Yingyuan could be said to have exceeded his predictions.

The two did not prepare supplies at Kaiyuan inside the Great Wall, but directly set the departure point of the army at Jiadao Station, thirty miles north of the Great Wall.

On this vast Liaobei Plain, the last group of people who did this was Feng Sheng, Fu Youde, Lan Yu, Zhao Yong, Wang Bi, Hu Hai, Guo Ying...

Even for Li Chengliang, most of the time he gathered soldiers and horses in Qinghe Fort inside the Great Wall, and prepared food and grass before leaving the fortress.

But when Xiong Tingbi and Sun Yingyuan arrived, they were not only not preparing in the Great Wall, they even ran to the north of the Huer River next to Jiadao Station to hoard soldiers and horses, arrange civilian husbands, and deliver food and grass.

You must know that Hu'er Hebei is an endless grassland in northern Liaoning. If tens of thousands of cavalry are killed at this time, it will be no less dangerous than the Battle of Sarhu.

But the problem is, not only did these two people arrive in Hebei, but they didn't even bother to station in the camp, and simply surrounded the army and civilian husbands with a supply cart.

If this scene was placed in the middle of Wanli, Wanli would have kicked Li Chengliang long ago, and supported the two as the general soldier and governor of Liao Town.

However, the two of them are much more comfortable following Zhu Youjian than following Wanli.

Right now, the two of them are directing tens of thousands of civilians to wash, steam, and bake rice by the Huer River, and prepare for the army rations several times.

Not far away, someone burned a pot of vinegar, put strips of coarse cloth in the boiling cauldron, and then let the cauldron boil.

In addition to these, there is a shed not far away, with fresh cabbage on the shed, and firewood burning continuously under the shed.

The distance between the two is one foot, and the fire cannot burn the vegetables, but the moisture in the vegetables can be baked out.

In short, under Xiong Tingbi's arrangement, a complete military ration system was formed on the north bank of the Huer River, while the [-]th Battalion and more than [-] soldiers of the Gongwei Battalion were stationed in the northern part of the Huer River, and sentry cavalry were also released. for dozens of miles.

"One hundred thousand catties of dried vegetables, thirty thousand catties of vinegar cloth, and one hundred and one hundred thousand dou of military rations, enough to feed the army for three months."

Xiong Tingbi couldn't help stroking his beard while watching the hot scene, and Sun Yingyuan also smiled heartily:
"The military rations prepared by Jinglue are not enough to contain the old slaves, even going north to take down Xinzhou City is enough."

Xinzhou City is the stone fort outside the Great Wall of the Ming army in the early Ming Dynasty. It is [-] miles away from the Great Wall and [-] miles away from the Huer River.

Since Houjin could not be disturbed in winter, Xiong Tingbi and the others have been appeasing the victims of the locust plague in Shandong.

After finally waiting for the winter snow to melt, they discovered that Nurhachi actually sent Mang Gurtai with two blue flags to station at Xinzhou City Station, and changed the place to Yidong River City.

Not only that, Nurhachi also sent people to reinforce Huifa City, sent Yuetuo to lead [-] troops to station, and sent Daishan to lead [-] to [-] troops to station in Yimihe City (Changchun), the gateway to Ula City.

As for the old slave himself, logically speaking, there should still be more than [-] troops stationed in Ula City.

Such an arrangement is enough to show that Nurhachi has a high probability of predicting that they will carry out the North Sweeping Campaign, or attack Houjin.

However, even if they arranged it like this, Xiong Tingbi was not afraid at all.

Don't look at the fact that Liaodong has only [-] battalions left after deployment and abolition.

But Xiong Tingbi can vouch for his chest that the combat effectiveness of these [-] battalions with less than [-] men is stronger than the combat effectiveness of the [-] Ming troops in the Battle of Restoring Liao Dynasty.

This is not bragging, but a process that every governor's mansion is going through.

During the double battle, Daming's military strength on paper was as high as [-] million, but at present, Daming's military strength is less than [-].

But the latter can sweep the former several times, and even the casualties will not reach [-]%.

Three years of equipment changes, sufficient military pay and food, greatly improved the combat effectiveness of the Ming army's governor's mansions, especially the Eastern army's governor's mansion.

In addition to their journey this time, there is also Lu Xiangsheng from Jianzhou County.

All together, the total strength is more than [-] people, but Lu Xiangsheng's part is mainly marching slowly, attracting Huifacheng Yuetuo's attention.

On the contrary, their part is said to be a feint, but whether the feint can be turned into the main attack depends on themselves.

Therefore, Xiong Tingbi's idea is to turn the feint into the main attack, and it is best to take down Xinzhou City Station first.

The reason why he thinks this way is not because he wants to get credit, but because of the victims in Shandong.

Starting from Zhu Youjian's order, the continuous migration of victims in Shandong caused the population of Liaodong to move northward.

At present, the population of Liaodong has exceeded [-] million, and according to the number of victims reported by Shandong, the population of Liaodong may reach [-] million by the end of the year.

A large number of people entered Liaodong. In addition to supplementing the labor force in Liaodong and carrying out large-scale land reclamation, they also brought advanced production technology, production tools and new species into Liaodong.

Take Henan immigrants as an example. After the Henan people started reclamation, they did not listen to the local officials and farmers in Liaodong.

In the second year, we plowed deeply, burned weeds and straw, and planted wheat.

By last year, many Henan people who had been in Liaodong for the third year had already started planting millet.

Spring planting has already started this year, and after seeing Korean immigrants planting rice in the Zhenjiang area, they even abandoned the traditional methods of planting wheat, millet, and milo in Liaodong, and began to release water into the fields on a large scale to plant rice.

Before them, almost no Liao people knew that rice could still be grown in Liaodong.

Not only that, they know how to judge the dryness and wetness of the land, and distinguish the seeds of the crops, so that the land will not be wasted, and the autumn harvest will be full of happy results.

Accompanied by the spread of these advanced production and planting technologies and new crop varieties, foreign immigrants have increased crop yields in Liaodong, with more and more varieties, and the agricultural yield per mu has also begun to gradually increase.

Due to the lack of news, even though some hungry people in Henan and immigrants from North Zhili wrote letters back to their hometowns after they had tasted the benefits of the black land, the people in their hometowns still remained skeptical.

Such doubts, coupled with Zhu Youjian's lowered grain standards after the relocation to Liaodong, led to difficulties in local relocation.

However, Xiong Tingbi still chooses to trust the common people. Among other things, as long as they conquer Xinzhou City, the tens of millions of acres of plains from Xinzhou City to the Great Wall can be developed.

Therefore, Xiong Tingbi chose to set off from Jiadao Station, because the millions of acres of plains south of Jiadao Station have already ushered in their new masters, nearly two million hungry people in Shandong...

Thinking of the gradually prosperous Liaodong, the smile on Xiong Tingbi's face couldn't stop, and Sun Yingyuan saw this and chatted about the feint attack:

"This time we have more than [-] troops, more than [-] five-jin cannons, and more than two hundred ten-jin cannons."

"According to the old slave's temperament, he might make Mangurtai abandon Xinzhou City Station."

"Not necessarily." Xiong Tingbi shook his head and said:
"How much the old slave's troops have recovered, we can only judge based on the previous news from Jin Yiwei."

"Now that the news about Jinyiwei has been discontinued and has not been continued, the specific strength of Jianlu troops should be calculated more."

"I estimate that the number of their real captives has recovered to about [-]. Adding some northern captives and a small number of Han soldiers, there are more than [-] people."

"So many people, how can they support them?" Sun Yingyuan was slightly puzzled, after all, in his opinion, it was impossible for Jianlu to support so many people.

It's just that his doubts were blocked by Xiong Tingbi's words.

"If you don't count the life and death of hundreds of thousands of forced relocated people, and they follow the example of the victims in Henan to plant buckwheat in one year, wheat in two years, and millet in three years, how much arable land do you think they can reclaim in a short period of time?"

"This..." Sun Yingyuan hesitated slightly, while Xiong Tingbi shook his head and said:
"I estimate that even hundreds of thousands of acres of land will be reclaimed."

"Those people who were forced to relocate, I'm afraid it's more or less ominous..."

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"Ugh!!!"

While Xiong Tingbi sighed, as he expected, a vast cultivated land suddenly appeared on this plain outside the city of Ula, which was more than [-] miles away from him.

On some of the cultivated land that has been fully developed, there are some Jurchens who are busy planting in the spring. If you look outside, the roots of the cultivated land have been hastily cleared, stones have been dug up, and buckwheat has been planted.

Outside the arable land where buckwheat is planted, there is a group of skinny Han Chinese who are cutting down trees, cleaning up tree roots, and digging out stones.

Their cheeks are sunken, their limbs are thin and their abdomens are swollen, and they look like the evil spirits in the illustrations. There are less than [-] of them.

Beside them, there are two yellow flags holding whips, and their number is only a dozen or so.

It sounds unbelievable that a dozen or so people guard three thousand people, but it really happened outside the city of Ula.

The long winter ended, and before the Ming army launched the Northern Expedition, it was impossible for Nurhachi and the others to stop the speed of plowing and plowing the fields.

The less than [-] Han Chinese were forced by Nurhaci to order Huang Taiji to be brought to Ula City before winter.

In just one winter, they have already lost tens of catties, and some even died of starvation or exhaustion on the reclaimed land.

And their corpses were often buried on the spot by other Han people sent by the guarded bannermen to become fertilizer for the newly cultivated land.

On the hundreds of thousands of acres of arable land outside Ula City, a very different picture of two poles has been formed.

On one side are bannermen who are not urged to work by themselves, and on the other side are Han Chinese who are exhausted like evil spirits, which is embarrassing...

"This group of Han people is about to run out, Khan Ama, why don't you ask Huang Taiji for another ten or twenty thousand, his speed of reclamation in the north is too slow."

When the barbaric language appeared, Abatai proposed to Nurhachi who was sitting beside him in a wheelchair, and this scene was very strange.

Nurhachi's situation makes people feel a little frightened. Although he is sitting in a wheelchair at the moment, he is skinny and has nothing to do with the demeanor he had when he entered Liaoning three years ago.

After his leg was severely injured, it became difficult to stand up and he had to rely on crutches to walk.

I thought it would be fine, but it seemed that the medical treatment was too brutal, which caused his legs to be in unbearable pain every rainy season, making him unable to eat, and violently irritable.

Maintaining such a temper for a long time made him hate the Han people deeply, and he continued to squeeze the Han people. In just two years, more than [-] Han people were exhausted to reclaim more than [-] mu of arable land...

Looking at the cultivated land in front of him, Nurhachi rarely suppressed the discomfort in his legs, and calmly analyzed everything.

Since Huang Taiji told him before the winter of last year, the Ming army may target Horqin to sweep the north, and then seek to encircle Dajin. After the final annihilation, Nurhachi began to arrange.

Even though half of his body has been buried in the ground, Nurhachi's brain is still functioning, and he can still judge how the Ming army will attack Horqin.

To this end, he made a series of coping methods.

The first is to strengthen the troops on the outskirts of Ula City, dispatching Daishan, Manggurtai, Yuetuo and other people who have been fighting among themselves, leaving Abatai who is the least likely to become a great khan.

In this way, even if his authority is not as good as before, no one will dare to defy him.

People can feel that he doesn't seem to live long, and maybe he will die in just a few years.

What he wants to do most is to ensure the stability of Dajin before his death, and to select a qualified Khan to prevent Dajin from perishing quickly after his death.

The candidate he likes has actually never changed, and the other party has never let him down.

This person is Huang Taiji, and Nurhachi has noticed everything he has done in Shangjing.

In three years, he has pulled his troops from more than [-] to [-]. It has to be said that some of his methods have impressed Nurhachi.

It's just that with only this little force, it is still impossible to make him a profuse sweat, and the reason is very simple.

Among the people under Huang Taiji, except for the two white flags of more than [-] people, the other [-] people are Han Chinese and Mongolians.

For this matter, many Baylor and Beizi under his knees laughed at him.

Perhaps they all thought that Huang Taiji, who was sent to Beijing, was actually an exiled guy.

They might not have thought that sending them to Shangjing was a means for Nurhachi to protect Huang Taiji.

Except for Huang Taiji, Nurhachi looked down on other heirs.

Thinking of Huang Taiji, Nurhachi ordered in a weak voice:
"Order and transfer Amin to go to Shangjing, under Huang Taiji's control..."

"Tell Huang Taiji... about Horqin, let him handle it..."

"If the Ming army really attacked Horqin, it would be best to annex Horqin and return to Shangjing..."

Nurhachi struggled to speak, and Abatai heard the sound as Nurhachi expected. He didn't show any impatient look, but turned around and ordered others to send a fast horse to inform Huang Taiji and Amin.

Nurhachi was very satisfied with this, and he also took out the regulations for the arrangement in the south.

"Send someone to tell Daishan to take over Yidonghe City, and then order Mang Gurtai to take two blue flag soldiers and horses, bypass Liaohe River and go down to Daning to knock..."

"Once... once the Ming army returns to aid...immediately lead the troops back to Xingjing by detour..."

"If the Ming army didn't... just plunder Daning and save us enough food for the winter..."

"Ama Khan, I understand, you should have a good rest." Abatai said, and Nurhachi leaned on the wheelchair profusely with sweat.

Obviously, another rain is coming, and he can no longer suppress the pain in his leg...

(End of this chapter)